{"id":341,"date":"2009-08-23T17:05:06","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T00:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vinemaple.net\/studio\/?p=341"},"modified":"2009-08-23T17:20:01","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T00:20:01","slug":"cruise-of-the-snark-posting-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vinemaple.net\/studio\/cruise-of-the-snark-posting-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"Done Snarking"},"content":{"rendered":"

I posted the last four chapters of Jack London’s Cruise of the Snark<\/a><\/em> today. I will be very pleased if I have introduced someone to this delightful book by posting it here.\"Jack_London's_Snark_on_Alameda_CA_Estuary\"<\/p>\n

A friend of mine has been exploring the possibilities of writing non-fiction narrative prose. I pointed him toward Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It, <\/em>which was published as fiction but is frequently cited as autobiographical, and the Philadelphia Inquirer’s <\/em>“Blackhawk Down”,<\/a> forgetting that I was in the process of posting the Cruise of the Snark<\/em>. That was an egregious lapse. Jack London is occasionally described as a pioneer of twentieth century journalism, and I think the Cruise<\/em> is a wonderful example of his contribution. The scenes of the Cruise <\/em>are as carefully plotted as those of any novel and London always finds an element of drama to highlight.<\/p>\n

I often judge a book by its atmosphere. Some are closed in and stuffy, like business and technical literature that piles cliche on cliche apparently trying to avoid a hint of an original thought. Others, like my old standby, Anatomy of Melancholy<\/em>, are richer than an over-priced slice of chocolate cake at a pretentious lunch counter.\u00a0 The Cruise<\/em> is open, wide open, looking past the horizon, beyond the next port of call, without regrets, without illusions. What an idiot! What a fantasy! What a way to live!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I posted the last four chapters of Jack London’s Cruise of the Snark today. I will be very pleased if I have introduced someone to this delightful book by posting it here. A friend of mine has been exploring the possibilities of writing non-fiction narrative prose. I pointed him toward Norman Maclean’s A River Runs … <\/p>\n

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